At 3:28 PM -0500 10/26/97, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Synopsis: System Panics after running fsck and re-hup-ing or stopping
>Apache process
>
>State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
>State-Changed-By: coar
>State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 26 12:28:38 PST 1997
>State-Changed-Why:
>The problem is that you're trying to repair a disk while
>it's in use, which is a major badness under any circumstances.
>If you try to change a tyre while a vehicle is in motion,
>and you get run over, you've no-one but yourself to blame.
>
>Apache opens some files and immediately unlinks them to
>prevent any other process from being able to access (and
>particularly modify) them.  This is fairly common
>practice.
>
>The workaround, or actually the correct procedure, is
>for you to do your repairs on a quiescent filesystem.
>
>Thanks for using Apache!
>Class-Changed-From-To: sw-bug-mistaken
>Class-Changed-By: coar
>Class-Changed-When: Sun Oct 26 12:28:38 PST 1997
>Severity-Changed-From-To: critical-non-critical
>Severity-Changed-By: coar
>Severity-Changed-When: Sun Oct 26 12:28:38 PST 1997



Fair enough. However, this file should be better documented.

Thanks,

Mitch


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